Today is a day much like any other at the moment and after a mixed weekend of family, friends and looking to the future I woke bleary-eyed as the sun burst through my window and began to wonder what the week might have in store for me, something I’ve learned not to take for...
Am I a fraud?
Sometimes it is easy to feel like a fraud. It’s something I’ve said many times at the Fathers’ Club when I’ve listened to how badly some parents of children with autism have it. I hear stories of non verbal, physically violent children that don’t go to school or if they do, are segregated or...
M is for Meltdowns
We’ve probably all been there. Doing the weekly shop and you see a kid having the mother of all tantrums. Sitting on the floor in the middle of aisle 6… shouting and screaming… refusing to do as they are told whilst a frantic parent desperately tries to reason with them, hoping they will stop...